What were the other names considered for the new Union South?

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. This must have been the guiding philosophy for students as they voted on a name for the old Union South’s replacement, er, Union South. During the Associated Students of Madison’s spring 2010 election, the ballot offered four options for the new building: Union South, Randall Union, Varsity Union, and Discovery Union. Union South won in a landslide with 8,738 votes (65 percent), and Randall Union earned a distant second place with 2,311 votes. If the new Union South ever needs to change its name, we came up with some additional unoriginal options for a future ballot: the Onion, in honor of the satirical paper started by Badgers; Union Utopia, to celebrate Babcock Dairy’s great contributions to the science of ice cream and punny flavors; and Union Not-North, to salute students’ clear affinity for cardinal directions.